The mother of a year 11 student from Sandon School is stopping at nothing to find her daughter's GCSE art coursework after it was left on a bus.

Madison Shipman, 15, is “completely devastated” after she invested hours of work on the coursework, so her mother Samantha Shipman is going the extra mile to try and find it.

She is offering a £100 reward to anyone who hands it in and will even be taking out local adverts to locate the work.

Ms Shipman has posted all over social media and has put up posters at every bus stop along the route which her daughter travelled along on the day the work was lost.

She has looked at CCTV at Galleywood Co-operative, on Barnard Road, where Madison went after getting off the bus to confirm she did not have it in the shop.

The coursework has not shown up at the bus depot or the bus station since she lost it on Tuesday afternoon.

Ms Shipman said: “I would rather I had left my handbag on the bus, everything in there is replaceable, the sketch book is irreplaceable."

She has considered placing a missing advert in the paper and still intends to if the coursework doesn’t show up.

Madison’s teachers at Sandon School described the work as “stunning” according to Ms Shipman.

Unless the coursework is found, Madison faces having to redo any of the unmarked work, but as Ms Shipman explains, “you can’t just redo something like that after putting hours of work into it”.

Ms Shipman continued: “We don't care who has it or how they came across it, we just desperately want it back. I can't imagine that it would be of value to someone else but it is irreplaceable to us.”

Ms Shipman said the loss of the coursework had been very distressing for her daughter who was very proud of her work.

Madison was travelling on a 41 First bus to a friends house after school at 3.30pm on Tuesday from Baddow to Barnard Road, Galleywood.

The art coursework was in an A3 black sketchbook and had all of Madison work from last year in it.

A spokesperson for First Bus said if the coursework turns up they will contact the Shipmans and get it back to its rightful owner, but also said that normally if the lost property is not found within 24/48hrs it is categorised as lost

They also made clear however that it can sometimes take several days from the initial loss, to the item arriving at Lost Property Office.

Ms Shipman has asked anyone who finds it to hand it into The Sandon School, Moulsham High, Baddow High, St Michaels Juniors or at the Co-op on Barnard Road.

You can also get in touch with Samantha Shipman if you have any information on 07801444003.